CPA CHARITABLE FUNDS

Registered charity 263147 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q5153823 · Wikipedia · also known as C P A, COMMONWEALTH PARLIAMENTARY ASSOCIATION

To help achieve its objectives, the CPACF provides funding for charitable activities including: Technical Assistance Programmes; Conferences to share knowledge and best practice; Grants for parliaments to make their buildings and activities accessible for persons with disabilities.

Objects

TO PROMOTE KNOWLEDGE AND EDUCATION IN THE SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, CULTURAL, CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGISLATIVE SYSTEMS WITHIN A PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRATIC FRAMEWORK WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE COUNTRIES OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF NATIONS AND TO COUNTRIES OUTSIDE THE COMMONWEALTH HAVING CLOSE HISTORICAL AND PARLIAMENTARY ASSOCIATIONS WITH IT.

Area of benefit: SEE OBJECTS

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net surplus of £364,982 for the year, driven by significant investment gains of £612,951 which offset a net expenditure of £247,969. Unrestricted reserves increased to £997,901, significantly exceeding the trustees' policy target of £200,000 to £400,000. The trustees confirmed the organization remains a going concern with adequate resources to meet obligations for at least five years.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Electoral Commission register entries

Entries on the Electoral Commission’s public register where this charity (or its company) appears as the source — typically sponsorship of an APPG or an overseas visit provided to an MP, which charities may lawfully do. Shown with the Commission’s own reference; this is a transparency record, not an allegation.

• Visit: Stuart McMillan (MSP - Member of the Scottish Parliament) — £6k · 08/04/2022 · Assam, India · ref V0568666
  I attended the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Executive Committee in Assam, India.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~12.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (90% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Keshava Sudhakar MP
• Hon Joy Marie Burch
• Hon Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu MP
• Lyndon Sean Trott Hon

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Anguilla · Antigua And Barbuda · Australia · Bangladesh · Barbados · Belize · Bermuda · British Virgin Islands · Cameroon · Canada · Cayman Islands · Cook Islands

Income and spending

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Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE CPF TRUST.

• THE CPF TRUST income £123k
• Crawley Community Action income £406k
• THE CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC FINANCE AND ACCOUNTANCY income £26.1m
• CFR (UK) income £1.6m
• D D MCPHAIL CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT CIO income £203k
• Cambridgeshire Deaf Association income £1.4m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.